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...Research to the annual meeting of the Society in Philadelphia. It was a picture of the virus which causes the mosaic disease of tobacco plants, one of the largest molecules known to chemists. It is a rod-shaped structure, about 40,000,000 times the size of the hydrogen atom (basic unit of atomic and molecular weight). But even at this size it could be photographed only with the recently developed electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28), which by using electron beams instead of light can magnify images 50 times greater than the best light microscopes...
Everyone on Broadway except the child actors remembers Percy Hammond, either with delight or something approaching brainstorm. Last week a few of Percy Hammond's intimates had gift copies of a new collection of his work. This Atom In The Audience (his own phrase), privately printed by his free-lancing son John Hammond of Newtown, Conn. Other envious Hammond admirers were tickled to learn that the book could be had on order from bookstores generally...
Green diamonds, highly prized by gem fanciers, are produced from ordinary white diamonds under bombardment by atomic particles in the cyclotron, atom-smasher, Associate Professor Harry Berman, Curator of the Harvard Mineralogical Museum, reported yesterday following a series of experiments...
...synthetically hypertrophied uranium atom...
...George Chaplin of the Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont, is studying the race problem with respect to Negroes; another, Harry M. Davis, a feature writer for the New York Times, has been spending some of his time in the dissecting room of the Medical School, and some of it watching the atom smasher in action; R. Vance Johnson, of the Globe-News Publishing Company, Amarillo, Texas, has been investigating the workings of the oil industry and studying petroleum economics...